Who We Are / Press Mentions
"10 Best Online Wine Shops"
Food & Wine, October 2011
Novelist Chang-rae Lee reveals his secret for finding the Web's best wine deals and names North Berkeley Wine's website as one of the top 10 online wine shops.
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"10 most memorable wines of 2010"
SFGate, January 2011
Wine critic Jon Bonne names our 2008 Minervois 50/50 Vin de Table selection from
Anne Gros and Jean-Paul Tollot as one of his "most memorable wines" of 2010, saying that this bottle is "everything a wine should be: brimming with sunny fruit, full of spice and edged by a mineral signature that transcends the everyday, without artifice."
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"Remodeled Bistro Aix still stands out"
SFGate, July 2010
Food critic Michael Bauer lists our
Mattes-Sabran “Dionysos” from the wine list
at San Francisco’s reopened Bistro Aix as one of the establishment’s “excellent
wines mostly from classic producers…It's the type of list that offers something
for everyone.”
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"Wine Spectator Insider: Novaia Amarone"
The Wine Spectator, May 2010
High praise (and high points) for our partners at
Novaia for their Amarone della
Valpolicella Classico Corte Vaona, from both the 2005 and 2006 vintages.
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"Ahead of the Curve: Fifteen Years of Carmenère in Chile"
Wine & Spirits Magazine, February 2010
The behind-the-scenes story of how our man in
Chile,
Alvaro Espinoza, re-discovered
the lost Bordeaux grape Carmenère and helped re-establish it on the world
wine stage.
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"A Grower Champagne Worth Keeping an Eye Out For"
The Wine Spectator, December 2009
Editor at Large Harvey Steinman says he plans to ring in 2010 with a glass of our
NV
Jean Vesselle "Oeil de Perdrix" in hand.
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"100 Wines Under $15: Quintay Sauvignon Blanc"
The Wine Enthusiast, November 2009
A selection of the best value-priced wines of the year; Wine Enthusiast editors
say the 2008 Quintay Clava Sauvignon Blanc is in "fine form."
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"High-end boutiques deliver high-end pleasure"
The Arizona Republic, February 2008
North Berkeley Wine is a "high-end boutique with trusted selections,"
says a local restaurateur in Phoenix.
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